‘The estimated impact of mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling policies on adult obesity prevalence and obesity-related mortality in England: a modelling study’ by Rebecca Evans et al. was ...

We know from previous research that both Covid infection and Covid mRNA vaccination are associated with the rare complication of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) in children. A new ...

A study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health looks at myocarditis and vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children. Prof Saidi (Sam) Mohiddin, ...

“These figures vindicate UK tobacco policy over the past 15 years, with the transition to vaping leading to unprecedented reductions in smoking prevalence, especially among young people. This process ...

A study published in Nature Communications looks at extreme winds and offshore wind turbines. Prof Chris Vogel, Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, said ...

The conference abstract ‘Effect of Long-term Melatonin Supplementation on Incidence of Heart Failure in Patients with Insomnia’ by Ekenedilichukwu Nnadi et al. was presented at the American Heart ...

“Encouragingly, the findings suggest that even a modest amount of walking each day, around 5,000 steps, is linked to a slower build-up of tau protein in the brain, one of the key drivers of ...

“The latest results show that PSA screening in this trial prevented 22 prostate cancer deaths per 10,000 men screened, compared to 14 deaths in the previous analysis. It also shows that the harms of ...

A study published in JAMA Oncology looks at hormonal contraceptive formulations and breast cancer risk in women under 50. Dr Ramón Salazar, Head of Medical Oncology at the Catalan Institute of ...

Scientists comment on the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. Dr Chloe Brimicombe, Climate Scientist, Royal Meteorological Society, said: “This report is important and in its ninth year has ...

Scientists comment on the Microsoft Azure cloud outage. Dr Saqib Kakvi, from the Department of Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: “At approximately 16:00 UTC, ...

New data from a major European trial tracking more than 160,000 men for over two decades has found that men who were screened for early signs of prostate cancer were 13% less likely to die from the ...